Playing for Keeps A History of Early Baseball
by [Goldstein, Warren Jay]
$70.70
Description
In the late 1850s organized baseball was a club-based fraternal sport thriving in the cultures of respectable artisans, clerks and shopkeepers, and middle-class sportsmen. Two decades later it had become an entertainment business run by owners and managers, depending on gate receipts and the increasingly disciplined labor of skilled player-employees. Playing for Keeps is an insightful, in-depth account of the game that became America's premier spectator sport for nearly a century.
Reconstructing the culture and experience of early baseball through a careful reading of the sporting press, baseball guides, and the correspondence of the player-manager Harry Wright, Warren Goldstein discovers the origins of many modern controversies during the game's earliest decades.
Product Details
- Cornell University Press Brand
- Nov 15, 1989 Pub Date:
- 9780801418297 ISBN-13:
- 0801418291 ISBN-10:
- 208.0 pages Hardcover
- English Language
- 9.25 in * 0.88 in * 6.12 in Dimensions:
- 1 lb Weight:
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